1545) and his third wife Mary Tudor (d.1533), sister of King Henry VIII and widow of King Louis XII of France. She was born on 16th July 1517 at Hatfield. In 1533 she married, probably at Southwark, ...

For example, France’s King Jean II Le Bon passed a ... About 300 years later, King Louis XII abolished the franc as legal currency and replaced it with the silver ecu and gold Louis coins.

His father, King Louis XIII favored the site for its hunting potential and built a brick and stone lodge there so modest, one of his advisors remarked that "a mere gentleman would not have been ...

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one of history’s most famous king-whisperers as chief minister to France’s Louis XIII, would have been unimpressed with such cretinous dissembling. He summarised his philosophy when he posited ...